Practical Machine Learning Cookbook

Chapter 3. Clustering

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Hierarchical clustering - World Bank
• Hierarchical clustering - Amazon rainforest burned between 1999-2010
• Hierarchical clustering - gene clustering
• Binary clustering - math test
• K-means clustering - European countries protein consumption
• K-means clustering - foodstuff

Introduction

Hierarchical clustering: One of the most important methods in unsupervised learning is Hierarchical clustering. In Hierarchical clustering for a given set of data points, the output is produced in the form of a binary tree (dendrogram). In the binary tree, the leaves represent the data points while internal nodes represent nested clusters of various sizes. Each object is assigned a separate cluster. ...